I'm taller than my husband when I wear shoes and he is barefoot (and he is 6'1"). I can say the alphabet backwards in 5 seconds. I LOVE cereal - I would eat it for every meal if my family didn't object. I am a francophile (j'adore la langue française). I play the piano, and I love to teach; at one insane point I had 42 students. If I could do whatever I wanted 24 hours a day, I would read and blog. I love my family, and I don't think I show them often enough. I watch entirely too much tv. I eat chocolate every day.
This: I'm not capable of doing a wordless Wednesday post. I'm too much of a windbag.
makes me laugh. Me too. :) Notice my photo of the week posts usually have at least one paragraph of explanation if not more. And now I also have the longest comment on your wordless weds. I will now shut up.
You must visit, the picture doesn't do it justice. You live in a beautiful part of Utah even though Cedar is not the most beautiful, but you are so close to so much beauty, enjoy the adventure.
Christian and I met our junior year in high school, hated each other, dated each other's best friends our senior year, fell in love six days before he went on his mission, and got engaged eight days after he came home from his mission. We were married in the Laie Hawaii LDS temple. We have been married for fourteen years and we have three sweet children.
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“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.” ~ Salman Rushdie
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. ~Steve Jobs
It is a waste of time and energy to worry about what others are thinking about you. because... You can never know exactly what another person is thinking...AND, the wost part is...they are usually not thinking about you at all. They are too busy worrying about what others are thinking about them. So, the truth is, all those terrible thoughts you thought they might be thinking about you, are your own thoughts about yourself. Better spend your energy worrying about that...or, you just might convince somebody to think what you were afraid they might be thinking after all. ~Portia Nelson
"When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness ... makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters." ~Henri Nouwen
"...People need to talk, and often a willingness to sit and listen is the greatest kindness one person can offer to another. One of the first lessons of childhood is to be wary of strangers, and while this is good counsel to guard against the world's very small nefarious element, it also teaches us to block out the large majority of those who just have something on their mind they'd like to say. We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs. By the time we reach adulthood, many have perfected the art of isolation, of being careful, of not listening in the name of safety. But the truth is that we need to hear other people, all people, especially in those moments when we don't know exactly where we're going ourselves." ~Ann Patchett
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." ~George Eliot
"Sometimes, I imagine my own life as a series of snapshots taken by some omniscient artist who is just keeping track - not interfering or saying anything, just capturing the moment for me to look back at it again later....This is the way it is, the photograph says, and I nod my head in appreciation. The power of art is in that nod of appreciation, though sometimes I puzzle nothing out, and the nod is more a shrug. No, I do not understand this one, but I see it. I take it in. I will think about it. If I sit with this image long enough, this story, I have the hope of understanding something I did not understand before. And that, too, is art, the best art." ~Dorothy Allison
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You're so lucky to live somewhere so beautiful!
GORGEOUS!!
Beautiful views. Your are so lucky. Where I live all we see in brown smog.
Those pictures are beautiful.
I'm not capable of doing a wordless Wednesday post. I'm too much of a windbag.
Makes me wanna Hie to Kolob
Love it at Kolob!
This: I'm not capable of doing a wordless Wednesday post. I'm too much of a windbag.
makes me laugh. Me too. :) Notice my photo of the week posts usually have at least one paragraph of explanation if not more. And now I also have the longest comment on your wordless weds. I will now shut up.
Maybe I will post a picture of what I see out of my front window. I see beautiful colorful trees right now. sigh!
Love the mountain views.
Pam
i just love southern utah!
I need to take a better picture of our view as well. The naked neighbors haven't been out lately.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing the view of Kolob...
What a beautiful view!
Oh how lovely! It always amazes me the variety of natural beauties in the world.
Dont you love living near these beautiful areas?
liz
no bragging allowed!!!
miss you.
Ah, I love it down there. I think the Subway hike is near Kolob Canyon. It rules (and kicks your trash).
Super crazy pretty.
You must win an award somewhere for the absolute cutest blog title ever. Seriously.
I love nature. I am seriously the most happy out on a walk. Anywhere. I just love it all.
Utah is gorgeous. Makes me want to visit and take it all in.
You must visit, the picture doesn't do it justice. You live in a beautiful part of Utah even though Cedar is not the most beautiful, but you are so close to so much beauty, enjoy the adventure.
Gorgeous!!!
Blessings!
How awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
ooooooo how pretty!!
That is so pretty! I need to spend more time in Southern Utah :)
Being from St. George, New Harmony and Kolob are some of my favorite places. Thanks for sharing.
Oh MAN I miss Utah. At least this aspect of Utah.
It's amazing how much that really does look like a hand! (sorry that's kind of lame to say, but I think that's so cool and have never seen it)
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